Be a champion for Lifestyle Medicine

The Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM) is a multidisciplinary society working towards improved prevention, management, and treatment of chronic, complex and lifestyle-related conditions. ‘Lifestyle-related’ includes environmental, societal, behavioural and other factors. Lifestyle Medicine is also a rapidly growing discipline with numerous colleges and societies around the world.

ASLM members include GPs and medical specialists, allied health practitioners, public health physicians, educators, and researchers. In practical terms, Lifestyle Medicine involves a range of professionals working together to address physical inactivity, poor diet or nutrition, smoking, alcohol overconsumption, chronic stress, anxiety, poor or inadequate sleep, social isolation, and loss of meaning and purpose, amongst other factors.

Be part of the solution and become a champion for Lifestyle Medicine. You’ll feel at home in our energetic, resourceful and creative multidisciplinary society.

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Education in Lifestyle Medicine

Board Certification from the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine (IBLM) is now available in Australasia. Be amongst the first in the world to be certified in Lifestyle Medicine. Certification can be undertaken from a clinical or public health perspective. More about Certification.

Certification is also a significant step towards Fellowship of the society. ASLM Fellowship is arguably the first fully multidisciplinary fellowship in Australasia, open to all full members of the society. Read more about the Fellowship conceptual framework, recognition of prior learning, grand-parenting period, and eligibility requirements.

Or visit our Education page for an overview of continuing professional development and educational pathways in Lifestyle Medicine.

Shared Medical Appointments

Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs), also called ‘Group Visits’, are a revolutionary way of managing chronic disease in primary care. They are “A series of consecutive individual medical consultations in a supportive group setting where all can listen, interact, and learn.” A SMA is both an individual consultation and a group education session.

SMAs involve a doctor, a facilitator (usually an allied health professional) who directs the 60 to 90 minute session and manages group dynamics, and 6 to 12 patients at a time. If you’re frustrated with the limitations of 1:1 consulting, SMAs are for you – and for your patients.

Become a Registered SMA Facilitator by attending a one day training course and followup assessment. ASLM provides an ongoing support structure for GPs and Facilitators trained in the SMA protocol.

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Shared Medical Appointments (SMA) workshop

A quantum leap forward in chronic disease management and treatment

Learn how to conduct Shared Medical Appointments in your practice and optionally, complete followup assessment and peer review to become an ASLM Certified SMA Facilitator by participating in this 6 hour training, either at a scheduled face-to-face workshop, online (recorded videos) or live webinar series. Designed for GPs, practice nurses and allied health practitioners, CPD points may be available from the organisations shown or with your certificate of completion.

Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle Medicine bridges the gap between health promotion and conventional medicine and promotes a multidisciplinary, multi-system approach. As a discipline, Lifestyle Medicine sits at the intersection of medicine, healthcare and health policy with behavioural, social, environmental, socioeconomic, political and other factors impacting on health and wellbeing.

About ASLM

ASLM advocates for Lifestyle Medicine and provides education, training and professional development for doctors, allied health practitioners, public health professionals, researchers and educators in Lifestyle Medicine. Similarly, ASLM has a mission to educate and inform members of the public how to prevent and better manage and treat chronic and lifestyle-related conditions.

Become a member

We warmly invite you to be part of an energetic, resourceful and creative multidisciplinary society advancing Lifestyle Medicine. Get access to the latest information and resources, and participate in an active, supportive community of health professionals focused on improving the health and wellbeing of Australians and New Zealanders.

IMgateway for ASLM members

ASLM is proud to announce UnityHealth as a Society partner. As a result of this partnership, ASLM members currently receive complimentary access to IMgateway, a subscription database service valued at $300 p.a.

IMgateway is the leading Australian, integrative medicine database of over 700 monographs, featuring Australia’s most comprehensive interactions checker containing traffic light reports on over 1,000 herb-drug, supplement-drug, and food-drug interactions (in partnership with the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney), practitioner monographs, patient information sheets and information on the leading practitioner only products.